The exterior design is nice but the interior is typical GM cheap looking.The mishmash colors doesn't help.

 

LC and LX have always been twins. They will get redesigned around the same time. Those cars are made to target to Asian and Middle eastern markets, so I doubt LC will delay redesign because LC always has different flavors than LX (up until now when Lexus introduced LX450d).

Back to topic. I still wouldn't consider Malibu over Fusion or Camry/Accord.

 

saw a few of these on the road on a recent trip to canada. GREAT looking car!!! reminds me of a much more refined and better looking Avalon.

 

Basically, it looks like a somewhat downsized Impala. Even though the new Malibu drives pretty nicely, there's no comparison between the two in road manners. Driving a new V6 Impala is simply....WOW.

I also agree that the new Malibu, per your suggestion, bears some resemblance to a slightly downsized Avalon. I haven't sampled the latest 2016 (non-Touring) Avalon with its newly-softened suspension, but last years's version (the same car with stiffer underpinnings), IMO,was to very impressive on the road at all, and had some notable interior-quality flaws.

 

funny, I was just thinking the Malibu has gotten larger....or at least looks larger to me.

 

It's still markedly smaller than its big brother Impala. The Impala is also markedly more comfortable to drive.

 

I think the Malibu is a very nicely styled car. What I can't get past in any Chevrolet is the cheap-looking aqua lighting in the interior, especially the guages. Just looks downmarket to me. Like the older green lighting in some cars.

 

I have that light blue dash-lighting in my Buick Verano, too. GM uses that in a number of its models because it is soft, easy on the eyes, and many customers (including me) like it. I thought the ugliest color for dash lights I ever saw was that odd yellow/orange on the early-model Infiniti G35s and the Saturn Aura sedan.

It would be nice, though, if more manufacturers would follow what Ford started with the Mustang, several years ago, and install the device that allows the driver to pick any one of some 120 (or is it 130?) different colors for the dash lights.